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Ideas for 'works', 'Metaphysics' and 'Mere Possibilities'

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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 2. Necessity as Primitive

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Necessity and possibility are fundamental, and there can be no reductive analysis of them [Stalnaker]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

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Modal concepts are central to the actual world, and shouldn't need extravagant metaphysics [Stalnaker]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence

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Some things have external causes of their necessity; others (the simple) generate necessities [Aristotle]

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Aristotle's says necessary truths are distinct and derive from essential truths [Aristotle, by Koslicki]